My name is Tim Dickison. I have a BA of British and American Literature from Blackburn College, Carlinville, IL. I spent two years in Akzhaik, Kazakhstan as a Teacher of English in a Foreign Language. I am a second year graduate student in Mass Communications.
Music students attend a weekly convocation to hone their skills in front of an audience. The convocation is held most Fridays at 2 p.m. in the John C. Abbott Auditorium, on the lower level of Lovejoy Library. The mini-concerts are free and open to the public. Below are three selections from The Reggie Thomas Combo.
The University Museum is helping with a fundraising effort to erect a memorial for local fallen soldiers. The effort is spearheaded by Douglas and Jill Garbs, parents of U.S. Army Ranger Spc. Ryan C. Garbs. Ryan Garbs was killed in action in Zabul Province, Afghanistan in 2007.
The bust for the memorial. photo courtesy of TheBANK […]
The death penalty in Illinois is a politically loaded topic. That did not stop students in SIUE’s College of Arts and Sciences Political Science Department from avoiding the issue.
Students from POLS 472 – Students of International Organization, put together the event on November 9, 2010. The program was in conjunction with Illinois Coalition to Abolish […]
Aldemaro Romero, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at SIUE, donated his personal collection to Lovejoy Library at SIUE on Friday.
Kyle Moore, director of development at Lovejoy Library, gave an introduction. Moore gave a short biography of Romero’s academic career. Moore also gave a synopsis of the collection that Romero had donated.
“Throughout his career, […]
SIUE took science to the masses on “The National Chemistry Week – Day at the Science Center.” The American Chemical Society, a professional organization of about 160,000 chemists, every year gets Congress to declare National Chemistry Week.
The St. Louis section of ACS has featured the event at the St Louis Science Center for about 19 […]
A piece of the Sullivan collection from SIUE was sent to Kiev, Ukraine this summer. It was sent as part of the Art in Embassies program. The program sends art overseas at the request of the U.S. State Department.
The U.S. ambassador to Ukraine thanks SIUE for the art loan.
The Art in Embassies program is designed to […]
What does art and literature have to do with collective and national identity and Juan Goytisolo? This is the exact question that Olga Bezhanova, assistant professor of foreign languages and literature at SIUE, answered in a recent article accepted for publication.
Bezhanova, a native of Ukraine, is interested in studying the formation of collective identity. In […]
Even the smallest of the animals need to be cared for is the approach of Beth Walton, assistant professor of geography. Walton is new to the region and became interested in counting the number of box turtles that are native to the region but had not been studied in depth.
Walton holds a box turtle that […]
Broad range exposure to the world is the wish of every institution of higher education. When one looks around the College of Arts and Sciences at SIUE, one may not see how diverse the faculty is. The office of the dean of the College hopes to change this.
Flags of the international faculty represented in SIUE's […]
Professors at SIUE may have found a way to accurately predict the future … political future, that is. Two professors at SIUE, in conjunction with several professors and students from the University of Illinois, were able to accurately predict the outcome of the 2004 and 2008 presidential elections.
Steven Rigdon, distinguished research professor of mathematics and statistics, […]
